Good old Lycos reinvents itself as a VOD player … or tries to
Remember Lycos? Of course you do. Remember when you last used the site? Of course you don’t. Perhaps that’s exactly why the company’s taking the site in a new direction: video on demand (VOD) rentals.
Started as a Carnegie Mellon University research project in 1994, Lycos… Continue Reading
Roundup: Visible Measures, Searchles, suits, Jubii, Obama, Kleiner, more
The latest action:
Grouper sends “cease & desist” letter to Searchles, but it may backfire — Grouper, the online video sharing site now owned by Sony, sends a C&D letter to Searchles to demand it stop taking Grouper videos and placing them in Searchles’ own player skin…. Continue Reading
Lycos’ social software project, Jubii, loses us
Lycos, the Europe-based portal, just unveiled an effort to bring together its social software technologies — integrating chat, test messaging, file-sharing, storage, mobile communications — into one offering.
It is called Jubii. Eager to try it out, we started the registration process, but were hit… Continue Reading